Have you ever heard about these great women?
Vocês já ouviram falar dessas grandes mulheres?
They are women that had
biggest impact on history because of their influential and importance to change
the world.
Elas são mulheres que tiveram um grande impacto na história por conta de sua influência e importância para mudar o mundo.
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Além da videoaula, trago pra vocês trechos das biografias e frases ditas por AMAZING AND IMPORTANT WOMEN.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nigerian writer, speaker, and
activist, Chimamanda Adichie, is beloved by many. The award winning novelist
and Ted talk sensation is fiercely revered for being a thought leader on Africa
and contemporary African politics.
“Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.”
“Please love by
giving and by taking. Give and be given. If you are only giving and not taking,
you’ll know. You’ll know from that small and true voice inside you that we
females are so often socialized to silence. Don’t silence that voice. Dare to
take.”
Carrie Fisher
“Do not let what you think they think of you make you stop and question
everything you are.”
“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”
Frida Kahlo
“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”
“I
was a child who went about in a world of colors… My friends, my companions,
became women slowly; I became old in instants.”
Harriet Tubman
Born into slavery in Maryland, Harriet Tubman
escaped to freedom in the North in 1849 to become the most famous
"conductor" on the Underground
Railroad. Tubman risked her life to lead hundreds of
family members and other slaves from the plantation system to freedom on this
elaborate secret network of safe houses. A leading abolitionist before
the American
Civil War, Tubman also helped the Union Army during the
war, working as a spy among other roles.
“I grew up like a neglected weed, – ignorant of liberty, having no
experience of it. Then I was not happy or contented.”
“There are two things I’ve got a right to, and these are, Death or
Liberty – one or the other I mean to have. No one will take me back alive; I
shall fight for my liberty, and when the time has come for me to go, the Lord
will let them, kill me”.
Rosa Parks
- Rosa Parks was a
lifelong activist, as was her husband.
- Rosa Parks was not the
first black woman to refuse to move from her bus seat; Claudette Colvin
had done the same nine months earlier, and countless women had before
that.
- Rosa Parks called
Malcolm X her hero, and they interacted several times during the American
civil rights movement.
“I would like to be
known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and
prosperity for all people.”
“Racism is still with
us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and,
hopefully, we shall overcome.”
Malala Yousafzai
“We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.”
“We realize the
importance of our voices only when we are silenced.”
“One child, one
teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”
“If one man can destroy everything, why can’t one girl
change it?”
Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo, (born May 9, 1951, Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.), American poet,
writer, academic, musician, and Native American activist whose
poems featured Indian symbolism, imagery, history, and ideas set within a
universal context. Her poetry also dealt
with social and personal issues, notably feminism, and with music, particularly
jazz.
In addition to her literary output, Harjo played saxophone and was a
vocalist with her own band, Poetic Justice, and with Arrow Dynamics, a group with which
she toured. In 2009 she was the recipient of a Native American Music Award for
best female artist of the year.
“There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.”
“I was born with eyes that can never close...”
“To pray you open your whole self
To sky, to earth, to sun, to moon
To one whole voice that is you
And know there is more
That you can't see, can't hear
Can't know except in moments
Steadly growing, and in languages
That aren't always sound but other
Circles of motion.
Like eagle that Sunday morning
Over Salt River. Circled in blue sky
In wind, swept our hearts clean
With sacred wings.
We see you, see ourselves and know
That we must take the utmost care
And kindness in all things.
Breathe in, knowing we are made of
All this, and breathe, knowing
We are truly blessed because we
Were born, and die soon within a
True circle of motion,
Like eagle rounding out the morning
Inside us.
We pray that it will be done
In beauty.
In beauty.”
―
Marie Curie
Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in two different
categories — physics and chemistry — and the first woman to obtain a PhD degree
from a French University.
“We must have perseverance and above
all confidence in ourselves. We
must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be
attained.”
“Be less curious about people and
more curious about ideas.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Bader Ginsburg became just the second female U.S. Supreme Court
justice when she took the oath of office on August 10, 1993. She faced
workplace discrimination in the 1960s despite graduating first in her class at
Columbia Law School in 1959. Ginsburg has long been a forceful advocate of
women's rights and gender equality, and she has earned the deep and abiding
respect of her colleagues on the Court along with the American Public.
"Fight for the things that you
care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you."
"Women belong in all places
where decisions are being made. It shouldn't be that women are the
exception."
Amelia Earhart
Exactly eighty years after her mysterious disappearance while attempting
to circumnavigate the globe, pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart continues to
hold a mythic place in the popular imagination. The first woman to fly
solo across the Atlantic Ocean, Earhart’s legendary feats are the very emblem
of courage — and of a woman who refused to let fears and adversity ground her
dreams.
“Some of us have great runways
already built for us. If you have one, take off! But if you don’t have one,
realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself
and for those who will follow after you.”
